Deduction Assignment Overview

Use the Deduction Assignment window to create and maintain deduction sets for employees. A deduction set includes federal and state withholding information, percentage deductions &benefits, fixed amount deductions & benefits, GTL, and direct deposit information.

Before you begin

Deductions and benefits must have been created in the Manage Deductions window.

Employees must be enabled in Manage Employees before deduction sets can be created and assigned to them.

Deduction assignment process

  1. Create a deduction set for an employee.

  2. Approve the deduction set — this action makes it the Current deduction set to be applied against an employee’s wages.

Deduction set states

Deduction sets will have one of three states: New, Current, or Past.

  1. During the process of creating the first deduction set — before it's approved — it will be in the New state.

  2. The process of approving a deduction set does two things: it assigns the approved deduction set the Current status and creates a copy of the deduction set, assigning it the New status.

  3. When the user edits a New deduction set and then approves it,

Other Deduction Assignment functions & topics

 

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